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Dennis Willis Mar 2023
You've not found this
or you wouldn't still
be seeking poetry
for oil
Yes, in that place you'd
look, if and if and if
oh you'd look
for ill
You'd look and you will
need a temp
a hot ness to feel
along long the way
pressing
On as if as if you and I
abscond with a handful
of time and space
not ours
draining
Dennis Willis Mar 2023
this is time
bleeding out
i've a certificate
of please continue
i resist all of your
entreaties to abjure
some or any
tomorrow
row row row
some any boat
and if i could be
dry any dry and
warm and dry
any warm any dry
i would be high so
high just to be
not so thirsty
Dennis Willis Mar 2023
on a hot
cat
hot tin
on hot tin
cat on a
hot hot hot
tin roof
hot
cat
so so hot
at i taut
i taut i'
waz
a puddy
hot cat
Dennis Willis Mar 2023
An admission
I don't know
I'm a specifist
'bout your precipice
know the exact edge
and under your view
am  hedging
while leaning some way

Into now and I am only
hard by knowing
and not
so left wondering
as to what they are saying
unknowing of all
the pretending some way
while leaning necessarily
Dennis Willis Mar 2023
tHIS IS
i mUST sAY
sTUMbLING
cRUMbLING
aTTEMpTING
lOVE aTTEMpTING
lOVE aND nOT
eVEN eVEN
cLOSE cLOSE
lANDING uPsIDE
dOWN wRIGGLING
cAN yOU sEE
mE hELPLESS
sPINNING
i
Dennis Willis Mar 2023
The joining of forces
two cookies
and a glass of milk
An agglomeration
even now
talking on my tongue
saying things
meltingly  
coercing further
examination more
dissolution in service
of licking my chops
over and over until
all traces have been
successfully removed
except my vigilance
Dennis Willis Feb 2023
I'm caught up
in the shout of you
I'm strung up
by the sound of you
let go
I think
as electrics howl
some dark note
i slam against
pulling hard
on the string
don't I don't
know if that's
a note or a scream
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